Aged 96
Famous people who died at 96
78 of the 11,867 best-known people in our data died aged 96, including Elizabeth II, Katharine Hepburn and Helmut Schmidt.
- Elizabeth IIQueen of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 2022 · 1926–2022
- Katharine HepburnAmerican actress · 1907–2003
- Helmut SchmidtChancellor of West Germany · 1918–2015
- Jiang ZeminFormer General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party · 1926–2022
- Vyacheslav MolotovSoviet politician, statesman and diplomat · 1890–1986
- Jean-Marie Le PenFrench politician · 1928–2025
- Ram NarayanIndian classical sarangi player · 1927–2024
- Habib BourguibaTunisian politician · 1903–2000
- Joan FontaineBritish actress · 1917–2013
- Harry BelafonteAmerican singer, actor and civil rights activist · 1927–2023
- Leon M. LedermanAmerican mathematician and physicist · 1922–2018
- Angela LansburyBritish actress · 1925–2022
- Freeman DysonTheoretical physicist and mathematician · 1923–2020
- Isaac Shamir7th Prime Minister of Israel · 1915–2012
- Rosalynn CarterFirst Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981 · 1927–2023
- Philip W. AndersonAmerican physicist · 1923–2020
- Ivar GiæverNorwegian-American physicist · 1929–2025
- Jack LaLanneAmerican exercise instructor · 1914–2011
- Paul Berg ↗American biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry · 1926–2023
- Simon Wiesenthal ↗Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter · 1908–2005
- Tony Bennett ↗American singer · 1926–2023
- Will Durant ↗American historian, philosopher and writer · 1885–1981
- Carl Schmitt ↗German jurist, political theorist and professor of law · 1888–1985
- Michael I of Romania ↗Last king of Romania · 1921–2017
- Norman Foster Ramsey ↗American physicist · 1915–2011
- Pau Casals ↗Spanish cellist, conductor and composer · 1876–1973
- Mikis Theodorakis ↗Greek composer · 1925–2021
- Arnold Rüütel ↗Estonian politician, former President of Estonia · 1928–2024
- Joseph Rotblat ↗Polish-born British-naturalised physicist · 1908–2005
- John Archibald Wheeler ↗American physicist · 1911–2008
- John Cornforth ↗Australian-British chemist · 1917–2013
- John Gielgud ↗British actor and theatre director · 1904–2000
- Franco Zeffirelli ↗Italian director and politician · 1923–2019
- Cicely Tyson ↗American actress · 1924–2021
- Marian Anderson ↗African-American contralto · 1897–1993
- Sergey Mikhalkov ↗Soviet and Russian writer · 1913–2009
- Simo Häyhä ↗Finnish military sniper · 1905–2002
- Cassiodorus ↗6th-century Roman senator and scholar · c. AD 487–583
- Martha Graham ↗American dancer and choreographer · 1894–1991
- Yusuf al-Qaradawi ↗Egyptian Islamic theologian based in Doha, Qatar · 1926–2022
- P. L. Travers ↗Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist · 1899–1996
- Levi P. Morton ↗Vice president of the United States from 1889 to 1893 · 1824–1920
- Michèle Morgan ↗French actress · 1920–2016
- Gladwyn Jebb ↗Acting Secretary-General of the United Nations · 1900–1996
- Dmitry Yazov ↗Soviet minister of defence · 1923–2020
- Fay Wray ↗Actress · 1907–2004
- Rafael Alberti ↗Spanish poet · 1902–1999
- Richard Adams ↗English novelist best known as the author of Watership Down · 1920–2016
- Zita of Bourbon-Parma ↗Empress of Austria from 1916 to 1918 · 1892–1989
- Lotfi A. Zadeh ↗American electrical engineer and computer scientist · 1921–2017
- Ethel Lilian Voynich ↗British writer and musician · 1864–1960
- Alasdair MacIntyre ↗Scottish-American philosopher · 1929–2025
- Caterina Albert ↗Spanish writer · 1869–1966
- Jules Dassin ↗American film director · 1911–2008
- Ruth Westheimer ↗German-American sex therapist · 1928–2024
- Gustavo Gutiérrez ↗Peruvian theologian · 1928–2024
- Valentina Cortese ↗Italian actress · 1923–2019
- Jack Vance ↗American mystery and speculative fiction writer · 1916–2013
- Lucio Costa ↗Brazilian architect · 1902–1998
- Martin Walser ↗German writer · 1927–2023
- Claude Auchinleck ↗British World War II Army commander · 1884–1981
- Israel Gelfand ↗Soviet-American mathematician · 1913–2009
- Paul Delvaux ↗Belgian painter · 1897–1994
- Pedro Lascuráin ↗President of Mexico for 45 minutes in 1913 · 1856–1952
- Ashraf Pahlavi ↗Iranian royal · 1919–2016
- John Latham ↗English physician, naturalist and author · 1740–1837
- Dom Mintoff ↗Maltese politician · 1916–2012
- Henry King ↗American film director · 1886–1982
- Jane Wyatt ↗American actress · 1910–2006
- Momofuku Ando ↗Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, created instant noodle (ramyeon), Nissin Chikin Ramen · 1910–2007
- Saint Remigius ↗French archbishop and saint · c. AD 437–533
- Arne Næss ↗Norwegian philosopher and mountain climber · 1912–2009
- Charlotte Cooper ↗English tennis player · 1870–1966
- Erwin Chargaff ↗Ukrainian-born biochemist who emigrated to the United States · 1905–2002
- Harrison Dillard ↗American athlete · 1923–2019
- Jonas Mekas ↗Lithuanian filmmaker · 1922–2019
- Kevin Roche ↗Irish-born American architect · 1922–2019
- Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza ↗Italian population geneticist · 1922–2018
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